UNHRC report on Sri Lanka
The Philippines has questioned the allocation of as much as USD 10 mn for Geneva-based evidence gathering mechanism to inquire into accountability issues in Sri Lanka.
During the ongoing 54th Session of the Human Rights Council...
Korea International Cooperation Agency, (KOICA) has upgraded and renovated the Korean clinic attached to the National Ayurveda Hospital of Sri Lanka (Teaching). KOICA said that the clinic that has been set up in 2003 was meant for the advancement...
Weather forecast issued at 05.30 a.m. on 11 September 2023 by the Department of Meteorology
Showers will occur at times in Western, Sabaragamuwa, Southern and North-western provinces and in Kandy, Nuwara-Eliya, Mannar, Vavuniya and Anuradhapura districts. Fairly heavy showers about...
By Rathindra Kuruwita
The Cabinet of ministers had approved a proposal by the President to remove all tariffs on electric vehicles for companies that had signed or would enter into agreements with the BOI to invest at least 50 million...
Sri Lanka became the very first country (outside the USA) to deploy Georgia State University’s (GSU) Cosmic Ray Muon Detector. Sri Lanka now becomes GSU’s first international member as a part of its ongoing deployment plan for a global...
The G20 joint declaration in Delhi is being described as a significant diplomatic win for India.
The agreement of a joint statement looked almost impossible a few days ago, given how sharply divided the group was over Russia’s invasion of...
By Norman Palihawadane
Colombo Archbishop Malcolm Cardinal Ranjith says that even though many including the Church authorities were unaware of imminent terror attacks on Easter Sunday 2019, almost 15,000 other persons had prior knowledge of it according to the reports...
US President Joe Biden and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi have pledged to deepen ties between their two countries, as the leaders held direct talks ahead of a Group of 20 summit in New Delhi at the weekend.
In a...
The Cabinet of Ministers on Monday approved a proposal presented by the Minister of Transport and Highways Bandula Gunawardana to amend the existing provisions of the Motor Traffic Act to provide for the registration of electric three-wheelers.
Cabinet spokesman Bandula...
On the apparent southward relative motion of the sun, it is going to be directly over the latitudes of Sri Lanka during 28th of August to 07th of September in this year.
The nearest towns of Sri Lanka over which...